Don't get bent out of shape when you decide to post this kind of question to a public forum and you get the kind of response you did. A lot of people monitor these forums to pick up information, to get help with problems, and/or help people with legitimate. It's quite understandable why people get irritated at those that can't be bothered to do a bit of homework to discover basic information. Too much of this kind of noise discourages knowledgeable people from monitoring these forums.
RTFM next time and save this forum for non-trivial questions. On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 10:02 -0700, John El wrote: > Thanks for your no help at all. > > There is no appender, and I've found the log by running grep over all the > likely files, and by grepping that file name I've found where the log file > is set. I've searched the documentation for this kind of set up and found > nothing. > > I've found info on properties files and the most useful thing I've found > about using an xml file for log4j configuration was a blog where the guy > says that there doesn't seem to be a good source of info on this. > > My questions may have been dumb, but you weren't smart enough to provide an > answer. I can't imagine why you bothered to reply to my post if you had > nothing of value to add. Lots of spare time? A feeling of superiority when > you call my question dumb? Can't be that because you don't seem superior > enough to have an answer. > > One more dumb question for you. If you're so smart, where did I find the > set up for the fatal log? And why? > > I know the answers now, but do you? > > > > Bender Heri wrote: > > > > If you do not specify any appender, your log message will go nowhere. > > > > Please read first the basics about log4j, before asking such dumb > > questions. Search the web for "log4j tutorial" and you will find tons of > > instructions and examples. > > > > Heri > >